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The Toxicity of DDT to Man and Animals

A Report on the Work Carried out at the Royal Naval School of Tropical Hygiene, Colombo, and a Review of the World Literature to January 1947

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

F. M. G. Stammers  and
F. G. Sarel Whitfield
F. M. G. Stammers
Affiliation:
Senior Entomologist to the Medical Director General of the Navy.
F. G. Sarel Whitfield
Affiliation:
Senior Entomologist to the Medical Director General of the Navy.
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It may be stated that the summation of microscopical evidence of harmful effect upon the exposed rats and rabbits as a result of their 28 days' exposure to continuous DDT aerosol as described was nil.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , May 1947 , pp. 1 - 73
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